[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] [RFC] fringe formats

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 01:25:05PM +0100, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:51:49 +0100
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > Here is a patch that adds support for a few more fringe formats through
> > libavformat.  Unfortunately they don't quite work yet.  Here's a short
> > list of the issues.
> > 
> > ffwc3:
> > http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/game-formats/wc3-mve/
> > Works fine in ffplay, MPlayer produces a black video.  Could be a
> > swscaler issue, the palette filter gets inserted.
> 
> Don't work in ffplay with --enable-swscaler.
> 
> > ffidcin:
> > http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/game-formats/idcin/
> > Same, but a dark shadow of the video appears on the screen.
> 
> Don't work in ffplay with --enable-swscaler.
> 
> > ffinterplay:
> > http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/game-formats/interplay-mve/
> > ffplay has heavy artifacting, MPlayer black video, xine is fine.
> 
> Don't work in ffplay with --enable-swscaler.
> 
> All those files give the following message:
> 
> swScaler: Palette is not supported as input format
> Cannot initialize the conversion context

Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention this..

> It seems that swscale still hasn't reached imgconvert feature set.

Will the patch about libswscale 8 bit decoding currently discussed
on ffmpeg-devel remedy this?

Diego